Easy Italian Sausage Baked Penne with 3 Cheeses

Easy Italian Sausage Baked Penne with 3 Cheeses. Mixing Italian sausage into the ground beef, really boosts the flavour of this comfort food, baked penne pasta.

Easy Italian Sausage Baked Penne

It’s been a busy few weeks for me and my blogging has slowed down because of a backlog of work at school. Still, we are still not going hungry at our house.

A batch of my homemade Italian Sausage!

This is a pretty quick and easy pasta dish that is a bit of a twist on a similar lasagne that I make. This dish is a hearty family meal or a great pot-luck dish made with ground beef, Italian sausage and a trio of cheeses.

The ground fennel in the sauce compliments the sausages nicely too.

Easy Italian Sausage Baked Penne

This truly is a family favourite meal. My kids ask for it all the time.

It really is one of my favourites because it is not as labour intensive as putting together a lasagna but with all the flavour. Feel free to substitute any similar sized pasta like ziti or rigatoni.

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Easy Italian Sausage Baked Penne with 3 Cheeses

Yield: 8 servings

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 50 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Easy Italian Sausage Baked Penne with 3 Cheeses - mixing Italian sausage into the ground beef, really boosts the flavour of this comfort food baked penne pasta.

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Ingredients

• 1 pound lean ground beef
• 1 pound hot Italian sausage - use loose sausage meat or remove from casings
• 3 cloves minced garlic
• 1 small minced red onion
• 2 large cans crushed plum tomatoes
• 1 small chopped red pepper
• 1 tsp ground fennel seed
• ½ tsp black pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 2 tbsp fresh tarragon, optional
• 6 cups cooked penne pasta
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 2 cups shredded part skim mozzarella cheese
• ½ cup fresh grated parmesan or asiago cheese

Instructions

1. Combine the ground beef and sausage meat and brown in a little olive oil in a large saucepan, breaking up the meat into small pieces as it cooks.
2. To the browned meat add the garlic and onions and cook for another minute until the onions just begin to soften. You can drain off any excess fat at this point.
3. Add the tomatoes, red pepper, fennel, black pepper, salt, oregano and tarragon. Simmer over low heat for 15-20 minutes.
4. Add the cooked penne pasta. Transfer the pasta and sauce to a greased lasagne pan. Top with a mixture of the parmesan, cheddar and mozzarella cheeses.
5. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 30 minutes or until the cheese is melted and golden

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Nutrition Information

Yield

8

Serving Size

1 Serves 6
Amount Per Serving Calories 704Total Fat 37gSaturated Fat 15gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 21gCholesterol 134mgSodium 950mgCarbohydrates 37gFiber 3gSugar 5gProtein 54g

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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